I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

It's nice when people approach you to help.

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going

I was in a department store and the clerk came up to me and said "do you want to lay on the couch' I said "Where's your clip board?

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

Do not fall in love, but rise in love

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.